Whether you look at the opinion polls or at the beating it’s just taken in a slew of local elections, Britain’s Labour Party is in a lot of trouble [....]
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough is the most powerful person in Washington few have heard of. As the Senate’s chief procedural referee, she will decide how much of President Trump’s agenda can pass without any Democratic votes.
[.....] If you eat a lot of salt — sodium chloride — you will become thirsty and drink water, diluting your blood enough to maintain the proper concentration of sodium. Ultimately you will excrete much of the excess salt and water in urine.
The theory is intuitive and simple. And it may be completely wrong.
Sen. John McCain slammed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a New York Times op-ed published Monday morning, accusing the nation’s chief diplomat of adopting a foreign policy that abandons both U.S. values and victims of oppression around the world.
[.....] inside the White House, the McMaster pick has not gone over well with the one man who matters most. White House officials tell me Trump himself has clashed with McMaster in front of his staff.
The former president, in Boston to receive the Profile in Courage Award on the 100th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s birth, called on Republican and Democratic lawmakers to stand up for vulnerable Americans and to ensure they do not lose access to care.
From Akron to Youngstown and Canton to Cleveland, as in cities and towns across the country, workers who once walked out of factories at the end of each shift now stream out of hospitals.
The city’s high school admissions process was supposed to give every student a real chance to attend a good school. But 14 years in, it has not delivered.